# Sierra High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060360000283`
- **School name**: Sierra High
- **Location**: Azusa, CA 91702
- **Address**: 1040 East Gladstone St.
- **District**: Azusa Unified (LEAID `0603600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.11362, -117.88622
- **Phone**: (626)852-8300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 119
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.2% proficient — 23 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.3% (cohort of 90)
- **2021**: 72.0% (cohort of 110)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.9% (95 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 13.9% (16 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 93.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 2.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.0% — 23 students
- **English Learners**: 27.8% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $40,496
- **Federal share**: $1,607
- **State + local share**: $38,889
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 115
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,756,505
- **Federal share**: 10.3%
- **State share**: 62.9%
- **Local share**: 26.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,888,270

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $112,830
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,207
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 46
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.62 miles (FORMER LERNER S SERVICE STATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: AZUSA LIGHT AND WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Center Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 4.5% (this school: 9.57%)
- **W. R. Powell Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 8.7% (this school: 9.57%)
- **Foothill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 2.3% (this school: 9.57%)
- **Azusa High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 9.57%)
- **Whitcomb Continuation High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.57%)

### ela proficiency
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Foothill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Stanton Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 55% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Ben Lomond Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 32.6% (this school: 29.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Charter Oak High** — 1.8 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Northview High** — 1.9 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Glendora High** — 3.2 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina** — 3.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 93.3%)
- **South Hills High** — 3.6 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 93.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Foothill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Clifford D. Murray Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Cypress Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Covina-Valley Learning Options Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-high-azusa/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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